The free Whack-a-Mole update is out on PC and consoles
[Update:Dead Cells‘ Whack-a-Mole updatereleased todayon PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.]
New weapons? More mutations? Hard-hitting balance tweaks? Where do your eyes dart whenscanning the patch notesfor a majorDead Cellsupdate? It probably depends on your goals for the game and where you’re at with them. For folks stuck in Boss Cell hell, the revamped difficulty curve is a big deal.
In today’s Whack-a-Mole update, the difficulty inDead Cellswas rebalanced again:
For those who haven’t kept up lately, these changes are meant to make things “easier.”
Elsewhere in the Whack-a-Mole update, we’re getting three amusingly beefy weapons: a doom-inflictingTombstone, a last-hit-chainingOven Axe, and a hold-to-charge club called theToothpick.
There’s also three tempting mutations to mull over, two of which speak to me as a tactics player:
So uh… I think barbed tips might be a little busted.fromr/deadcells
How do you unlock the new mutations and weapons? They’re drops! According to the wiki, you can get No Mercy fromSlashers, Barbed Tips fromToxic Miasmas, Point Blank fromCorpulent Zombies, Tombstone fromSwarm Zombies, Oven Axe fromOven Knights, and Toothpick fromGround Shakers.
The team has tried to stamp out seed-related crashes for good, touched up the Malaise mechanic (including new icons to “give you a better idea of what’s about to hit you”), and made it so Legendary items scale “based on the sum of your two highest stats” and Legendary status doesn’t raise an item’s level. That said, those last two reworks are “very subject to change.”Dead Cellsdoesn’t stand still.
As always, it’s worthpoking aroundto see the minutia. For instance, it may not be a headliner for a lot of players, but a new accessibility-focused hold-to-chain-attacks toggle sounds pretty sweet.
As noted onReddit, the Whack-a-Mole update should be ready for consoles in the next three to four weeks. If you’re aDead Cellsmobile player, that version just gotThe Bad SeedDLC – it’s $3.99.
